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Peter Saint-Andre: > On 1/10/13 6:08 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Greg Troxel wrote: > >>> David Goulet <dgou...@ev0ke.net> writes: >>> >>>> So here goes. I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to >>>> try to create an OTR foundation or non profit organization >>>> or whatever we can think of (OTR project à la Tor) that >>>> would basically regroup libotr > >>> This conflates two separate things: >>> >>> nonprofit structure and registration >>> >>> a group of people to actually do things >>> >>> Setting up a nonprofit in the US is hard and takes years; one >>> needs to have a board, file annual reports, etc. I suspect >>> it's just as hard in Canada. This has very little to do with >>> actually hacking on code. > >> Indeed, and would only take away more time from the coding part >> for those people involved. > >> The real issue is getting good people with free time. > > Agreed. I can attest that you don't want to form an organization > unless you really need it, because it requires attention all on > its own. Better to provide good infrastructure for people who want > to do the work (source control, bug tracking, etc.) and farm out > any of the organized efforts to other groups (e.g., do the > standardization at the IETF or XSF). > At what point can you say Yes to: "you don't want to form an organization unless you really need it" I'm in a CA of a non profit organization and I agree, it is quite an overhead in terms of non coding time so the creation of such entity should be carefully evaluated if it would help the project/community go forward faster. Thanks! David > Peter > > -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ > > > _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing > list OTR-dev@lists.cypherpunks.ca > http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJQ8D3EAAoJEELoaioR9I02PysH/Rrc4BIF/d1wiDSvXX8fFsmr +a8dRRUZP2h8hukx+e99qs9t72xPKdeA3qwG0LfDpVX3l5Dd1MjCK3+cPhbinU7B Ym6YjFeSRX5brDjwlTBxXrJxt+atgtTluEoN3W2O3imogQXZ//8UH6WoSnNVBMcy NovF0yxHM5ZmmXNKAHeQt8nkHLnRZKqK+1M+pUcyViYYLf03QlqC2GflffWrHFbN rWQznRuBeHodpiPRSLxOmZ5cz2c+uz3iNbunTkIi03D1PJTTwSiPJl8uD7OZu+TN aZe6RgrNky1TUxjeAQ10s/gLa2z/6PgCXIprfHPRA6WzsTVBF55DbTG3pnDN6Mk= =ZGYJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list OTR-dev@lists.cypherpunks.ca http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
